Missing Snapdeal employee returned home

Newsworldbd.com -12.02.2016

A 24-year-old Snapdeal employee, who was missing since Wednesday evening, returned home on Friday soon after she had called up her family to tell them that she was on a train from Panipat in Haryana. However, suspense remains on the circumstances of Deepti Sarna’s disappearance and her sudden return back home.

Here’s how the incident unfolded:

* Dipti Sarna was reported missing around 9pm on Wednesday by her parents after she did not return home from work.

* Ghaziabad senior superintendent of police Dharmendra Singh said that Deepti took a shared auto and after it broke down, she moved to another shared auto where there were two men and a woman in the vehicle.

* After a while, the auto took an unusual turn and when Dipti started to raise her voice, the men in the auto threatened the other female passenger at knifepoint to leave the auto.

* Her father told the police that when the auto crossed the Hindon river bridge, Deepti had called him and gave him her location.

* Her father also said that Dipti was heard shouting at the auto driver for taking a wrong route and after that her phone was switched off.

* With the father’s input, police swung into action and almost 200 cops launched a manhunt to search the girl.

* Dipti was then blindfolded and taken to the Rajnagar Extension area and from there she was taken to an undisclosed location in a drive that lasted almost three hours.

* Dipti told the police that she was not harmed in anyway by her alleged kidnappers throughout the night and that she was also fed by them.

* The next morning, she was left at a railway station blindfolded after which she managed to board a train.

* Throughout the ordeal, her captors did not speak to her and she could not make out their profiles as she was blindfolded.

* Dipti, who was exhausted after her ordeal, managed to identify Narela station, which came after a couple of stops from her boarding point.

* She managed to convince a fellow passenger to make a phone call where she called up her father, asking him to pick her up from the New Delhi railway station.

* After she got down at the station, she managed to call her father again from a PCO.

* Dipti’s father has maintained that the intentions of her alleged abductors were to harm her but they could not execute their plan due to pressure from the media and police.